Yeah, I thought she clicked with the neighbor a lot better, too.
Abe Hiroshi is also a ton more charming and charismatic than Nicholson. Nicholson seems to largely get by by saying cranky and unpleasant and saying that it means charisma...Abe Hiroshi is more sheer presence with awkward charm underneath.
A completely different topic, but I'm reminded of this from another convo: Have you read George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books? One of the core families, the Starks, have six children, all of whom have a pet wolf from the same litter. When the father found them, he saw there were 5 normal wolves, and one white runt. He had 5 children with his wife and one illegitimate son, and there were 4 male wolfs and 2 female, just like his children. He decided that the wolves had been sent to him by the old gods for his children. As the series continues, he seems to be more and more correct. The illegitimate son and his wolf now live in a land of ice, and are often mistaken for a warrior and ghost, and are almost indisinguishable from each other. One child is crippled, and the wolf serves as his legs. One wolf is killed, and that child has been lost and adrift ever since, with no mooring...except a man referred to as "The Hound." Another child was separated from her wolf, which has supposedly become wild and savage. The more the rumors about the giant, mad wolf spread, the more we see her become more and more savage and ruthless.
(Now watch you already be reading the series, or not like it and then me quietly head for a corner.)
Though, it wasn't the book I was trying to remember last night...
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Abe Hiroshi is also a ton more charming and charismatic than Nicholson. Nicholson seems to largely get by by saying cranky and unpleasant and saying that it means charisma...Abe Hiroshi is more sheer presence with awkward charm underneath.
A completely different topic, but I'm reminded of this from another convo: Have you read George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" books? One of the core families, the Starks, have six children, all of whom have a pet wolf from the same litter. When the father found them, he saw there were 5 normal wolves, and one white runt. He had 5 children with his wife and one illegitimate son, and there were 4 male wolfs and 2 female, just like his children. He decided that the wolves had been sent to him by the old gods for his children. As the series continues, he seems to be more and more correct. The illegitimate son and his wolf now live in a land of ice, and are often mistaken for a warrior and ghost, and are almost indisinguishable from each other. One child is crippled, and the wolf serves as his legs. One wolf is killed, and that child has been lost and adrift ever since, with no mooring...except a man referred to as "The Hound." Another child was separated from her wolf, which has supposedly become wild and savage. The more the rumors about the giant, mad wolf spread, the more we see her become more and more savage and ruthless.
(Now watch you already be reading the series, or not like it and then me quietly head for a corner.)
Though, it wasn't the book I was trying to remember last night...
ETA: BTW, what have you seen Abe Hiroshi in?